Fairness in international climate change law and policy soltau friedrich 9781107402645 books amazonca. Yet observing the global effort to combat climate change reveals that a key part of the discussion revolves around the contested concept of fairness a juridical analysis of options to combat climate change will benefit from a critical engagement with the principle of fairness. This work analyses fairness dimensions of the climate regime a central issue in international law and policy is how countries of the world should allocate the burden of addressing global climate change with the link between human activities and climate change clearly established and the first impacts of climate change being felt there is a renewed sense of urgency in addressing the problem. Fairness in international climate change law and policy this work analyzes fairness dimensions of the climate regime a central issue in international law and policy is how countries of the world should allocate the burden of addressing global climate change with the link between human activities and climate change clearly established and the first impacts of climate changebeingfelt . Based on an overview of science and the development of the climate regime to date this book seeks to identify the elements of a working consensus on fairness principles that could be used to solve the hitherto intractable problem of assigning responsibility for combating climate change